Intro World Place Names

Intro World Place Names - Transcript

Geography
Sierra College
C J Cox Instructor
INTRODUCTORY WORLD PLACE NAME LIST
WORLD REGIONS
Locate and label these specific regions on a blank outline map or
your map with the outlines of the regions
North America North Africa
Middle America Sub Saharan Africa
The Caribbean Southwest Asia Includes the Middle East
South America South Asia
Europe Southeast Asia
Antarctica East Asia
Oceania Australia New Zealand the South Pacific
North Asia Russia Central Asia Trans Caucasus

Note Culture Regions may be formed from several different continents For example Middle and South America are often combined as Latin America You should not use terms such as Central America the Middle East Far East and the Orient on this quiz Please also avoid using Southern Africa or South Africa as these terms have different meanings from the Africa South of the Sahara Desert


BODIES OF WATER
Locate and shade or circle the seas and then label these locations on your map
Use an arrow to precisely indicate the straits channels and canals
Oceans Seas and Gulfs Straits Channels Canals
Atlantic Caribbean Sea Baltic Sea English Channel
Pacific Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Straits of Gibraltar
Indian Arabian Sea Caspian Sea Straits of Hormuz
Arctic South China Sea Red Sea Straits of Malacca
Sea of Japan Persian Gulf Bering Strait
North Sea Gulf of Mexico Panama Canal
Suez Canal
Geographic Reference Lines
Locate and label these locations on a blank outline map
These are reference locations and will not be on the map quiz
Equator 0 North South
North Pole 90 North
South Pole 90 South
Tropic of Cancer 23 1 2 North
Tropic of Capricorn 23 1 2 South
Arctic Circle 66 1 2 North
Antarctic Circle 66 1 2 South
Prime Meridian 0 East West
International Dateline 180 East West